001Call to order the meeting of the Board of Education, scheduled for Tuesday, August 6th, oh today's not the 16th, 25th, 2025 held at 7 p.m. at Wyandotte City Hall. Roll call please. Member Bevin Parshall, here. Member Cain, here. Member Kinney, here. Member Los Cicero, here. Member Martinez, here. Member Weber, here. President Sirkovich, here. Perfect attendance. All right please stand and Nick is gonna lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. When you start, we'll follow. Ready, start it. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you sir. Oh it's the 26th, I apologize, thank you. I was looking at that going... I knew it was on 16th, but you're right. Thank you.
002All right, recitation of the vision and mission statements. Secretary Los Cicero will read the vision statement and Treasurer Martinez will read the mission statement. Vision statement, a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that develops resilient, innovative, and engaged individuals. In the mission statement, collaborating and inspiring to educate, engage, and empower all. Thank you. The reading of the minutes, the proposed summary from the August 12, 2025 work session is included in your packet. Secretary Los Cicero reviewed the summary and found it to be in order and acceptable as presented. I move approval of the proposed summary from the August 12, 2025 work session be approved as presented. Support. Is there any discussion? Please attach the roll. Roll attached. Motion carried. Thank you. All right, special orders and reports. Tonight during special orders and reports, I'm going to
003be reading the draft resolution on the fiscal year 2025-2026 school aid budget delays. We're going to be voting on this so we'll have discussion on this later, but I'm going to read the resolution in its entirety at this time. Whereas Michigan's constitution requires the Michigan legislature and governor to pass an annual school aid budget for the exclusive purpose of funding public education and whereas governor Gretchen Whitmer signed public act 160 into law in 2019 which states that the legislature must pass and present general appropriation bills for the upcoming fiscal year to the governor on or before July 1st and whereas local school districts in Michigan are required by law to pass their own budgets for the upcoming school year by July 1 and whereas the Michigan legislature has failed to meet their July 1 legal
004deadline to pass a school aid budget appropriation bill or make any meaningful progress towards doing so and whereas the wind up public schools board of education was forced to adopt a budget for the 2025-26 school year without key funding information due to the ongoing lack of a state budget and whereas the fiscal 2025-26 school aid budget continues to be delayed by political battles that are unrelated to school funding or the needs of our students and whereas the ongoing delay in funding certainty has already impacted our ability to best plan for the support our students need and deserve in the upcoming school year and whereas every day the budget continues to be delayed by lawmakers will only worsen the negative impacts on our schools staff and students this fall and beyond and whereas comments by legislators
005that suggest the school aid budget can or should wait for other budget agreements to fall into place ignores the critical needs of our students therefore be it resolved the wind up public schools board of education is urging state lawmakers to immediately pass a spending bill that fully allocates the entirety of funding meant for our schools in a manner that supports the needs of each and every student in michigan be it resolved further the wind up public schools board of education is affirming that the school aid funding should not be tied to any other budget deals including ongoing talks about road funding all right so that has been read in its entirety now and we will have discussion on it once there's a motion on the floor during the action agenda thank you all right we
006will now move to the hearing of the public wind up public schools board of education welcomes public discourse now is the portion of the meeting where the public may address the board those who wish to speak should approach the podium state their name and address the board comments will be limited to three minutes per person members of the board and district employees will not answer questions during public commentary is there anyone wishing to address the board at this time seeing none we will move to our action agenda all right action agenda item number one teacher hires dr anderson right due to retirements and transfers we need to hire teachers for the 2025-2026 school year after following appropriate personnel protocol and completing team interviews the director of human resources and i recommend probationary teaching contracts be
007awarded to rtencia evans at the lincoln center and monroe tanya roberts at the lincoln center lincoln center and emma gallagher at roosevelt i move approval of probationary teaching contracts be awarded to rtencia rtencia evans tanya roberts and emma gallagher effective for the 2025-2026 school year support is there any discussion we plan to meet some new staff members once the school year we do yep they had new teacher orientation today so like we did before great uh yes we're planning to do it at the board office yeah like we did yeah yeah so we actually get a chance to talk to folks awesome um okay any other discussion all right let's take a roll call please member bevin partial yes member kane yes member kinney yes member locicero yes member martinez yes member weber yes president
008sirkevich yes motion carries congratulations welcome home friends all right number two all right uh speech language pathologist we need to hire a speech and language pathologist for the 2025-2026 school year after following appropriate personal protocol and completing team interviews the director of human resources resources and i recommend a probationary professional contract be awarded to jessica stewart for her work at madison center i move approval of the probationary professional contract be awarded to jessica stewart effective for the 2025-26 school year support any discussion roll call please member kane yes member kinney yes member locicero yes member martinez yes member weber yes member bevin partial yes president sirkevich yes motion carries the next one is our early childhood center director hire we need to hire a director at the early childhood center for the 2025-2026 school year
009after following appropriate personal protocol and completing team interviews the director of human resources and i recommend probationary administrative contract be awarded to jolie car i move approval of probationary administrative contract be awarded to jolie car effective for the 2025-26 school year support thank you any discussion roll call please member kinney yes member locicero yes member martinez yes member weber yes member bevin partial yes member king yes president sirkevich yes motion carries all right while we were able to see some of the improvements today another one we have up for bid is cement work at the courtyard at wilson the cement in the courtyard of wilson needs to be replaced director of operations bernie bowers and myself recommend approval of the following bid to complete the needed cement work i recommend oscar cement llc in the
010amount of thirty nine thousand eight hundred dollars this will be funded through sinking funds and all work should be completed by september 1st 2025 i move approval of the bid of thirty nine thousand eight hundred dollars from oscar cement llc to complete the wilson courtyard cement work to be paid for by sinking funds support any discussion we did talk about this at our work session a couple weeks ago and the information was in our packet mr bowers is here if there's questions about this bid all right seeing none let's take a roll call then member locicero yes member martinez yes member weber yes member bevin partial yes member kane yes member kinney yes president sirkevich yes motion carries next we have a lease agreement with the city of why not we'd like to enter into
011a lease agreement with the city of why not to share the upkeep and use of memorial park the lease agreement was reviewed at the august 12th work session and has been included in the board packet i move approval of the lease with the city of why not to share the upkeep and use of memorial park as proposed support all right is there any discussion as dr anderson indicated we talked about this at the work session it's in your packet if you've had questions you could have contacted him at the board office everybody's good yeah yeah is it yes i just wanted for the public just to kind of give them a brief synopsis what does entering into this agreement allows us yeah the ability to do so as our high school families know we have
012been using memorial park as our varsity baseball and softball fields for a number of years due to the way the land ownership agreement is now we are not we are restricted on using our district funds to help in the upkeep of those two parcels of land so this lease will essentially put into it into motion a shared ownership or lease owner agreement that would allow us to use our funds we're not obligated to spend anything but we are able to then propose improvements to the city work with them on cost sharing and then carry out that work will we take care of the fields as well what's that the field in the because it's it gets really bad i mean yes yeah so yeah so um mr bowers and i have met with the city
013a number of times there's the bringing it back up to code and then maintaining it yeah and training on on both city employees on our own on how to make sure that that happens any other discussion on this everybody is clear ready to take a vote okay roll call please member martinez yes member weber yes member bevin partial yes member kane yes member kinney yes member la cicero yes president circovich yes motion carries all right the board of education masb delegates the michigan association of school boards 2025 annual fall conference will be held in lansing october 23rd through 26 2025 the delegate assembly will convene on thursday october 23rd at 7 p.m to determine by-law revisions and other matters of importance three board members can be selected as voting delegates alternates can also be selected
014i move that board members kathy cain cindy kinney and therese circovich be designated msab 2025 voting delegates and that wendy low cicero be named alternates to the voting to the voting delegates support any discussion let's take a roll call please member weber yes member bevin partial yes member kane yes member kinney yes member la cicero yes member martinez yes president circovich yes motion carries all right state budget resolution regarding the fiscal year 2025-26 school aid budget delays um as read by me earlier in the meeting we want to pass a resolution that addresses the fiscal budget school aid budget delay so we're going to take a motion and then we can have discussion i move approval of the resolution that addresses the fiscal year 2025-26 school aid budget delays support okay discussion well it looks
015like they're getting closer with what we saw in the news tonight that more was said that i don't know if this is necessary or not well i think it is because it's been delayed for months we had to have our budget done schools are suffering without knowing what their budget is going to be without being passed and this has happened more than one year and we should not be legally obligated if they're not to have a budget done by july 1st and then they can hold out they can hold out those funds to a school that we have to make a budget on and put forth our budget and with no information on funding i think it's important also just for the same reasons but but just to make sure that everybody understands the impact
016right that this has on not on not only our district but the whole state and i understand that they're getting close but close isn't a budget and we need the actual budget to to be able to you know plan appropriately and with with this resolution we're not we're standing along with other districts as well right this was well the districts in the area right that are also in the state that are adopting this resolution i think it's important for them to hear from us because if we sit and say nothing nothing nothing is not good at least this is something it's a step forward and from our side i agree i don't think that uh as wendy said there's a law in place that that they quite frankly voted themselves to put in right and
017we are held to that standard and i think if we don't say something then i think it's sort of like that behavior is okay and i don't believe it is okay i think that every we should all be held to the same whatever they decide to do if they change the numbers or change the funding that's their call but i think that missing the date it is a problem yeah absolutely anybody else cindy do you want i mean you started the discussion do you have anything else to say no nothing else okay all right are we ready to take a vote then all right call the roll please member bevin partial yes member cain yes member kenny yes member locicero yes member martinez yes member weber yes president sir kovett yes motion carries all right
018we'll be lending our voices to those along with other school boards in the state who are asking for the same all right let's go on to the consent agenda because items on the consent agenda are routine and there is little need for discussion one motion can complete this part of the agenda if anyone is interested in copies of reports recommendations or information please contact the superintendent's office at seven five nine six zero zero two i move approval of board of education bills and the amount of two thousand one hundred ninety four dollars and bills and vouchers in the amount of six million six hundred and sixty three thousand four hundred and twenty eight dollars and 28 cents support any discussion roll call please member locicero yes member martinez yes member weber yes member bevin partial
019yes member cain yes member kenny yes president sarkovich yes motion carries bills are paid all right committee of the whole discussion agenda the next uh meeting will be the of the board will be the work session on september 9th 6 30 at the board of education office announcements dr anderson just a couple um we have our teachers returning back tomorrow so we're welcoming our entire staff back tomorrow morning um and our students will be back um a week from today so uh the day after labor day so we're really looking forward to a fantastic year um had a wonderful surprise today the representative from the knights of columbus you may have seen on social media um stopped by unannounced and uh got to meet ron from the clients of columbus and they had three checks
020in their hand for nine hundred dollars each for each of our um for madison joe brighton and um the lincoln center and they earned this when they're standing in the intersections selling tootsie rolls and so they made twenty seven hundred dollars and they donated it to our schools and our programs so um yeah it was a huge uh huge surprise and uh so next time you see them out in the intersection stop and buy a tootsie roll that's awesome and then uh finally uh fall sports band um we are we are in gear so we've been back at practices and getting ready for our first competitions that are starting up this week um with more to come next week so if you're interested in a game or performance uh look on our website we have
021all of our schedules up for the public awesome thank you board members yes two things um just want to congratulate the marching band on their band camp they have beautiful show shirts as i'm donning tonight and uh their show is based around bob ross and so it's it's a really neat show make sure you come out and see them and support the kids um the other thing is just to remind the board that we do have to get the policies done and um therese and i have finished ours cindy and i have a plan in ours and if we can try and get that finished up for next next month that would be great okay and if they don't remember which ones you asked for i have it right here thank you becca can we
022make a note for the work session to remind me for the the ninth about that okay thank you all right anyone else just to welcome everyone back to school and it's as a teacher this is my favorite part of the school year um is just seeing the new fresh faces in the classrooms and um so i'm just wishing everyone a happy and safe school year same my favorite time of year all the dicks and tie condor rocas are on sale so it's the best best time of year for me you know i love a new that new pencil feeling all right never leaves you no even when you're retired you like gravitate yeah all right you have to go to the back to school sale it's the best awesome all right if uh if there's
023no other announcements i will take a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn support